Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Lettergesh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lettergesh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Infants Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.59872, -9.90360
- SMR number
- GA010-018----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a N-facing hillslope overlooking coast. Known locally as 'Cliabh Cillín', it consists of a roughly oval area (N-S 12m, E-W 17.5m) delimited on N side by a low curving bank of earth and stone, traces of which are also visible at W, elsewhere by modern field boundaries. Numerous small set stones are visible in the interior, including a roughly circular setting of stones just inside the bank at N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.